Those asthmatic lungs really got me this week! 🫠 so grateful to live in this modern world where super strong steroids and the NHS exist, despite their flaws and difficulties. Looking forward to moving on from fragile Victorian invalid mode…

Absolutely the creepiest thing I have ever read The Spectator 🤢

Beautiful day to be prepping a show! You Are Here Bude SproutSpoken is tomorrow night!

Will be performing some pieces I’ve written here later this evening. What a spot! SproutSpoken

This amazing book by an incredible author launches TODAY! Huge congratulations Ash Bond you absolute legend! Cannot WAIT to read this 💫

Paperback publication day for this beautiful book. Congratulations @LukeTurnerEsq - what a moment! 🫶

Honestly just beside myself at David Tennant’s Tony Baddingham 👌

The dilemma of writing as an extrovert: need peace, time and space to myself to concentrate. Need company, noise and activity to stay sane. Have prioritised the former this weekend and consequently have 1. Written 5000 words, 2. Feel close to the edge of insanity 🫠

I literally became a journalist and got a small white dog because I spent my childhood watching Tintin (yes, I read them too, I’m not an animal).

YES to this exit poll! 🙌 Apart from those potential Reform seats which can get in the 🚮

According to the exit poll, Truro/Falmouth, St Austell/Newquay and Camborne/Redruth go red, N Cornwall and St Ives go orange and SE Cornwall stays blue.

YES Cornwall! The Tories previously held all six of these seats. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Take it in. The first female chancellor. The first housing secretary who's actually lived in social housing. The first education secretary who was on free school meals. An energy secretary who actually believes in aggressively fighting climate change. Not a bad afternoon.

Keep the videos of Nazis crying coming. They are both good and funny.

Really delighted to have this piece published by the brilliant dialectwriters - it was so interesting to reflect on the last year, and the process of writing this book: dialect.org.uk/blog/gods-geld…

Six years ago, an immigrant used a knife on me. He cut my belly open and delivered my baby boy safely, when both our lives were in danger. I’m forever thankful to him for keeping us both safe. These protests aren’t about immigration, they’re about male violence and entitlement.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will douse them with petrol & burn them alive or drug them till they're unconscious & invite strangers round to repeatedly rape them.

I shouldn’t need to clarify this but we have a solidly mediocre maternity offering in this country and a worsening birth crisis, so Kemi Badenoch is suggesting that we pay women less to do one of the hardest jobs imaginable can really only be appealing to people who hate women.

In today's podcast Jen Offord chats to @hannah_marsh about her new book Thread, the many misconceptions about the caesarean, the pressure on women around birth choices, and why women are struggling to have the births they want. Dig in! buff.ly/B0C36tr

I’ve been off here for a while. Is it any better?